So, if this has been active from the morning, why was it announced middayish?
Should we take this as a substitute for the "Halloween" special?

After the poll results on the main portal, it was felt there wasn't enough interest for a Halloween specific special. This event would have happened regardless of Golden Joystick, so not a Halloween special, but a normal weekend special as we normally have for the EU servers. It's not a substitute. The delay in publishing the article has simply been a mistake by he community team due to all the recent work we've been rolling out at the same time. I'd like to apologize on behalf of the community team to everyone for publishing this information late.

Thanks for remembering the tier 3 and 4 vehicles, after all, they never get overlooked, do they :p
I love driving the valentine and su-26 for fun, it would be nice, just once in a while if they got some lovin in these 'special' events

We used only the tier 5 Lend Lease tanks for the discount. For the increased credits we've taken a tank from each tier. The KV-1 and T-28 haven't had increased credits for a while so that's why the T-28 features over say the T-50-2.

The Valentine discounted for the Second Battle of El Alamein on the 20th October. I know the Matilda was also recently discounted for the Counter Attack special, but it shows that we do discount the lower tier premium tanks.